Word: michell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, a group of strikebreakers, arrested for disorder, sabotage, petitioned for release. They refused to eat; officials heeded not. Thereupon Prisoner Pierre Michel, procuring a knife, cut off his toe, laid the bleeding member on the desk of the examining magistrate, declared that, unless released, each of his mates would cut off a toe, send it to the Magistrate. Said the Magistrate: "Bandage him. Lead him to his cell...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...
Died. General Michel Joseph Maunoury, 76, former military Governor of Paris, at Orléans, France. Under Joffre, in command of the left wing of the French Army, he played an important part in repulsing the German drive on Paris...
...lecture is on the painting of the Renaissance. Examples of the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michel Angelo, and Raphael, taken from the Harvard Library, will be shown. More lectures of this nature will be held on other subjects connected with the course during the year...
...lecture at the Fogg Art Museum yesterday, Mr. Frederick Mortimer Clapp discussed the work of the Florentine painter, Pontormo. He considered the Italian Renaissance art, the great masters of this period, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto, and Michel Angelo, and their influence upon the work of Pontormo...